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Science-fiction buffs have an easier time taking to a new tool for the care and nurturing of brands: scenario-building. Fans of the genre are used to imagining different possible futures, based on what's happening today and what might happen...
SALINAS, Calif. -- Brand names are a familiar sight in the grocery aisles, but they are now also competing for space in the produce department.While a few notable produce companies have built a brand image around commodity items, it is value-added...
Windows 95 has been hyped as a cure-all for the problems facing the compact disc read-only memory market, but its effect will not be felt for a long time, agreed retailers and other observers polled by SN. "As with any new software item, you are...
COMPTON, Calif. -- Ralphs Grocery Co. here has begun to feature the genetically engineered MacGregor's tomatoes in its advertising.y altered tomatoes are supposed to possess.The ad's headline read, "Summertime Taste . . . Year Round!" The body...
HOLLYWOOD -- Alan Perper has left his position as senior vice president of marketing at Paramount Home Video. He had been with the company for about eight years. A Paramount spokeswoman declined comment on Perper's departure and on what the...
Coffee Drinking Survey Releasedffee Association, based here, has released its 1995 Coffee Drinking Survey, which covers more segments of the industry than last year's edition.The 61-page report presents national demographic data and statistics on...
NEW YORK -- The Pfizer Food Science Group here has made it easier to formulate good-tasting food products that can carry the term "natural." The company has added Natural Veltol to its Veltol line of maltol and ethyl maltol. These compounds act as...
MONTVALE, N.J. -- A&P here is doubling the footage of health and beauty care sections in most new stores, according to Harry Conway, director of HBC and general merchandise for the New York metropolitan area."The greatly enlarged HBC format will...
RICHMOND, Va. -- Trimming 2.5 inches off the width of a roll of heavy duty Reynolds Wrap may not seem like a giant new product innovation, but when the change is driven by both consumer research and supply-chain efficiencies it yields a...